Lake Solano

Quick getaway.   Nice campground, $40, free showers.   $30 senior.   No fish in the lake!   Saw a few minnows.   Check-in lady said her husband has never caught a fish in there.   They don’t stock, as I guess something related to the tribes land in the area.   I guess they drain the lake at times.  Campground has wild turkeys, peacocks, and supposedly deer and bobcats.  Don’t go for the fishing.

Purty sure you were on the hot end of some tailwaters of berryessa,  an eppic heritage trout stream....

Gal said there is a dam at both ends and they actually drain it at times.   So i don’t think the fish get in easily.

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Fishing/Inland/Trout-Waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Solano

https://solanoopenspace.org/OtherOutdoor_LakeSolano.asp

Lake Solano itself is not an easy place to fish, but there are some big wild bows in there.

They don't drain lake solano, though the water gets pretty thin in the fall when they reduce outflow from Berryessa.  There used to be a great brown trout fishery back in the 70's-early 90's.  There were also plenty of rainbows down there as well when they used to stock the creek.

The only draining they do is the Putah South Canal that starts at the diversion dam.  I believe it's a short annual event in the fall/winter for maintenance on the canal.

It's now a wild rainbow fishery that caters to fly rods and small flies.